Category: Tom Baxter

When the newly-reconstituted Georgia State Election Board held a surprise meeting July 12 to push along new election rules, it was enough to prompt a warning from Attorney General Chris Carr and a lawsuit brought by a watchdog group.

n the middle of the night, after President Joe Biden’s withdrawal announcement, former President Donald Trump posted this mocking remark on Truth Social: “It’s not over! Tomorrow Crooked Joe Biden’s going to wake up and forget that he dropped out of the race today!” It was a joke. Was it also wishful thinking?

All of a sudden, unity. For a minute, anyway.

The polls have been doing something interesting this summer, which is: not much.

Last week was a religious/political split screen, as the controversy over in vitro fertilzation boiled over.

We can take some consolation in Atlanta that while they are serious, our problems with water aren’t yet world class. That’s one distinction we don’t want to shoot for.

When the book is finally written someday about the Libertarian Party’s long sojourn in the political wilderness, there will need to be a big chapter about Georgia.

Georgia’s political parties continue to drift in opposite directions, making the middle an increasingly uncomfortable place for both Republicans and Democrats.

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump gave major speeches over the weekend, and the way they were covered showed why that CNN debate in Atlanta can’t come soon enough.

One of the nation’s most interesting battles over guns rights is taking shape in Savannah.

It was hardly surprising that a video about the vast potential for artificial intelligence technology was aired at film screenings at the SXSW festival in Austin. What organizers didn’t expect was the response.

In this day and age we don’t pay as much attention to regional differences as we do to race, gender and party. But it’s worth noting that on what may be the most important votes of their political careers, Georgia’s congressional delegation broke down on clear regional lines.

The news that Pete Skandalakis will take over the investigation of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones’ involvement in the effort to upend the 2020 presidential election served as a reminder of the long shadow the last election continues to cast, even as the next one takes shape.

Suppose the General Assembly was due to vote on a measure that would increase your taxes by about $40 a month. Now suppose that because of a court case, you wouldn’t be able to vote for your legislator this year at the usual time. If you didn’t like the way the legislator voted, you’d have to wait until 2025 or later for the chance to vote her out.

As much as they have to do with each other, elections and legislative sessions seldom align in an intended way.

Healthcare has become the nexus through which most of the serious politics of the General Assembly moves. Which is much different from saying that healthcare is a subject the General Assembly has done much about.

It’s a sign of just how much novocaine we’ve injected into the jaw of American politics over the past few years that the gutting of the Grand Old Party was received last week with such numbed indifference.

Georgia has placed itself squarely in the cockpit of the new, electrified economy. So far in 2024, it’s been a bumpy ride.